Sajnálattal közöljük, hogy Prof. Dr. Urs Heim, a Magyar traumatológus társaság tiszteletbeli tagja 2013. július 25-én elhunyt.
PD Dr. med. Urs F.A. Heim ( born in Zürich 1924)
-Specialist in general surgery (and urology) (FMH)
-Surgeon in-chief Kreuzspital Chur 1961-1981
-Habilitation 1973 at University of Basel („internal fixation of peripheral fractures“ Springer)
-Change of habilitation at university of Berne 1984
-1982-1984 president of Swiss society for traumatology and insurance medicine (SGUB/ SGTV)
-1983 president of the 4th German-Austrian-Swiss congress for traumatology (Lausanne), pre-ETS
-1988-1993 president of AO International
-1992 Dr. h.c of university of Jena
-Honorary member of AO/ ASIF, SGTV, SOFCOT, Hungarian Trauma society, Austrian Trauma society, American society of veterinary surgery
-In AO function intensive contacts to Eastern Europe (Troian) and France (Bèzes…)
-author of 200 original scientific papers
-author of 6 books (peripheral osteosynthesis, Springer; Checkliste Traumatologie, Thieme; The pilon tibial fractures, Springer; The AO phenomenon, Hans Huber; The history of christian nurses in Switzerland…
– The „historian of the AO“
